Stock-car



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STOSK GAR.

No. 273.570. Patented Mar. 6,1883.

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WATTS MARTIN, OF PENNSBOROUGH, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS E. DAVISOF HARRISVILLE WEST VIRGINIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,570, dated. March6, 1883. Application filed August 8,1882. (N model.)

The object of my invention is to provide animproved stock-car partitionfor separating the stock during transportation, which partition may bereadily applied and removed without injury to the car, and which may beeasily opened sufficiently to allow the stock to bedriven out to be fedand watered. The stationary partitions which are now used are fixed inthe car by being nailed to the sides, which seriously injures the car inthe course of time, and which partitions do not afford any facilitiesfor letting the stock on and off after once fixed in place.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts for fastening a detachablepartition in place by a hingejoint onone side, which permits the partiiion to swing back like a gate, and forfastening the other edge when the partition is in place, as will behereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the walls of an ordinary slattedstock-car, and B is the re movable partition. On one side of thispartition I arrange a vertical iron bar, (3, about five feet high, whichbar is about two inches wide and one-half inch thick. This bar isprovided with three (more or less) loops, a, made 0 of iron rods, bentasshown, which pass through eyes in the gudgeons b, hired in thepartition, which loops form the pintles of the hinge upon which the gateturns. The bar (J is detachably connected to the side bars of the car byclamp-plates D. These plates arepreferably made of Norway iron aboutone-quarter of an inch thick and threeinches wide. These plates areformed with hook-shaped upper ends, 0, which hang over the top edges ofthe slats of 50 the car. They have also right-angular ofl'sets d, whichrest in the plane. of the slat of the car,and are provided withset-screws e for fastening the clamp-plate D to the sides of the car,while at the lower end each clamp-plate carries on its inner side aheaded projection,f, which passes through vertical slots in the bars (3to attach this bar (which forms the gate-post of the partition)'to theside of the car. The object of the slotsin the bar 6 and the looseconnection of the same with the headsf of the clamp-plates is to adaptthe clamp-plates to the different widths of space existing between theslats of diff rent cars. Upon the opposite side of the car is arranged aseries of clarnpplates, 0, correspondingto those on the other 6 5 side,but having headed studsor stemsf, that are made much longer than thoseon the first side, which headed studs f pass through vertical slots inthis end of the partition. The

object of these elongated studs or stein-s f is to permitthe partitionto be applied to cars of greater width, while thevertical slotsin thisend of the partition allow the clampplates to be adjusted to suit thedistances between the slats of the car; With this construction of par- 75 tition and the devices for connecting it to the sides of the car, itwill be seen that it may be applied to any of the cars of ordinaryconstruction wit bout alteration of or injury to the same,

and when so applied it serves all the benefits of a stationarypartition, with the additional advantages of a saving in the cost ofapplying, there being no cost except the first cost, while the hingingof the partition on the loops of bar (J readily allow the openingandclosing of the same to let the stock in or out to be fed in transit.

When applied to single-deck cars, as shown, the partition will be aboutfive feet high; but it may also be applied to double-deck cars, in whichcase the height will only be about three feetor whatever the distancebetween the decks may allow.

I am aware that partitions have been de vised which are adapted forbeing raised to the 5 roof of a car and there turned into horizontalposition, so as to occupy as little as possible of the space availablefor shipping grain or other merchandise. Such arrangement of partitionsI disclaim.

Having thus described myin'vention, what I claim as new is 1. Thecombination, with a stock-car, of a bar, 0, and clamp-plates forsecuring it to the slats of the car, the partition and hinges forattaching it to said bar, asshown and described, whereby the partitionis adapted to swing latorally and also to be detached, as specified.

2. The combination, with the stock-car and the partition, of the bar 0,slotted vertically and provided with looped rods,foruiing pintles, andthe clamp-plates D, having hooked upper ends, a set-screw, and a headedstud at the lower end passing through the slot of bar 0, as described.

3. The clamp-plates constructed with a hooked upper end, an otfsettingprojection with a set-screw, and a headed stud atitslower end forholding bar Con the partition, asdescribed.

4. The combination, with the partition having vertical slot in itsopening end, of the clamp'plates G, constructed with hooks at theirupper ends, a set-screw, and an elongated headed stem,f, passing throughthe slots of the partition, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

WATTS MARTIN. Witnesses: I

J. N. PEIRPOINT, THOS. E. DAVIS.

